“If this guy prints more money between now and the election, I dunno what y’all would do to him in Iowa, but we would treat him pretty ugly down in Texas. Printing more money to play politics at this particular time in American history is almost treacherous, or treasonous, in my opinion.” — Rick Perry about Fed Chair Ben Bernanke

Here’s Rachel’s 8/16/11 report (Ezra joins her) on Perry’s anti-Fed comments and lack of any apparent economic policy. As Ezra points out, the irony is that the Fed was a free-market Republican invention.